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Elsie Venner v. 2

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description

Elsie Venner v. 2

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340

Book Description

Elsie Venner

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783744673709
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 334

Book Description
Elsie Venner - A Romance of Destiny. Vol. II is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1861. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Elsie Venner v. 1

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304

Book Description

Elsie Venner

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375056974
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.

Elsie Venner

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birthmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 360

Book Description

Elsie Venner

Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780543708304
Category : Birthmarks
Languages : en
Pages : 380

Book Description
At the heart of his 1861 novel Elsie Venner: A Romance of Destiny (a novel Oliver Wendell Holmes later called his "medicated novel"), lies an analogy between original sin and genetic inheritance. Poisoned in utero by rattlesnake venom, the novel's eponymous heroine comes into the world a hybrid of snake and human. She coils, slithers, and strikes; her skin is cold, her eyes glittering diamonds, and her only friends are rattlesnakes. When she is given a basket of White Ash leaves, a tree long believed to be an antidote to rattlesnake venom, Elsie shrinks into herself "in a curdling terror." Unable to love (or even cry), Elsie passes through the novel as the object of everyone's repulsed and fascinated gaze (snakes are known, after all, for their ability to charm with horror). She falls in love with a young doctor named Bernard Langdon, who proves incapable of loving a serpent. A wealthy heiress, she attracts the fortune-hunting designs of her cousin, Richard (Dick) Venner, who ...